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When Bruce Willis Grows a Beard, Do Not Ask Him to Shave It...

"If you haven't read Art Linson's brutally honest WHAT JUST HAPPENED?, I'd recommend that you breeze through it between now and the fall (it's a quick 206 pages) because I'm worried that Barry Levinson's feature adaptation of the Hollywood tell-all (scripted by Linson, and due out October 3rd) won't work quite as well with self-parodying stars like Bruce Willis stepping in for, say, a highly volatile Alec Baldwin. The particulars: Baldwin shows up to the set of THE EDGE sporting a full beard, which he deems appropriate for his character; the studio, already cheesed at shelling out $5 million for a non-bankable "star", flips and demands that he shave; Linson, facing the possibility of replacing Baldwin with the less physically intimidating Bill Pullman (hot off of ID4 at the time), girds for war and, roughly, the following blow-up occurs: (video)"